The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-12 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR, IN AMERICA, (From the news Correspondent.) NEW YORK, April 29. As is usual when men's minds are greatly excited, when events that may shape the destinies of a people are in progress, when the moral atmosphere is surcharged with electricity, and when nobody knows what an hour may bring forth, all sorts of rumours are in circulation—some alarming, some reassuring, some absurd, some contradictory, and all perplexing. To-day brings a plenteous batch of them from Washington, the most prominent of which may be recorded—partly because there may be more or less truth in them, and partly because, whether true or false, they show the current of opinion, and throw light upon the history of the extraordinary crisis through which this people will have to pass during the next three months. One is that Mr. Lincoln despairs of renomination for the Presidency, and favours that of Gen. Fremont ; a second, that the Republican party, unable to unite upon Fre mont, Chase, Bank:3, or Butler, have found a candi date more to the mind of the majority in Mr. Adams, now United States Minister at the Court of St. James's ; a third, that Mr. Chase, offended by the appointment of Gen. Frank Blair to high military command, apparently as a reward for his fierce at tack on the personal no less than on the public cha racter of the Secretary—whom he accuses of core ruption as well as of " Secessionism" —is about to withdraw, if he has not already withdrawn, from the Administration ; a fourth, that General Grant desires to strengthen the armies with which he is prepared to march upon Richmond by the appoint ment of General M'Clellan to one of its divisions, and that Mr. Lincoln, supported in his determina tion by Mr, Stanton and General Halleck, perempe torily refuses, and the present and unexpected in action of the army is due to this among other causes --a fifth, that Richmond will be evacuated, and that the plan of General Lee is to seize upon Washington, and hold it as more than an equi valent ; a sixth, that the Confederates have silently and secretly constructed a formidable navy of ironclads and rams which will in a few days appear in the Potomac, and co-operate with Long street in the meditated attack upon the Federal capital; a seventh, that difficulties have arisen with Prance upon the Mexican question, and that an alliance offensive and defensive has been signed be tween the Emperors Napoleon and Maximilian and the Southern President, and that Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Belgium will join with France and Mexico in recognizing the independence of the South; an eighth, that the leaders of the De mocratic party in Congress have framed articles of impeachment against Mr. Lincoln, not alone for his abandonment of the Monroe doctrine, but for his culpable mismanagement of the war and the affairs of the nation during his disastrous incumbency; a ninth, that the repulse of General Banks in Louisi ana is much more ignominious than has been repree sented ; that half his army is lost, and the remainder so demoralized that nothing but the appointment of a new General and a large reinforcement, which cannot be spared from the armies of the Potomac or of Tennessee, will prevent the recovery by the victorious Confederates of the city of Orleans and the whole of Louisiana. This is a long list—but it would not be complete unless it were added that serious fears are entertained, not only of a commer cial crisis, but of an uprising of the working classes in this and other cities, if, contrary to the calcula tions and hope of the governing party, General Lee, and not General Grant, should be the victor in the mighty struggle that is now impending on the Rapidan and the Potomac. These rumours, like straws upon the storm, may all be worthless ; but at least they show the direction of the wind. If they come from different points of the compass, they may also prove that the wind which blows so freshly is a whirlwind. The stock-market is as feverish in its own way as the greater world of politics. The announcement that Mr. Chase had left Washington en route for New York ; that he had stopped at Philadelphia to consult the bankers of that city on what was to be or could be done to bring down the premium on gold, or, at all events, to prevent its further rise, caused a gentle panic !yesterday, and unsettled every kind of business. This morning's announce ment that he had only gone to Philadelphia to have a tooth extracted, Washington not possessing any artist sufficiently dexterous to be allowed to operate on a jaw so illustrious, somewhat re-assured the " bulls." It, however, displeased the " bears," and especially all those loyal patriots who continue to hope against hope that greenbacks and gold can be brought to par, that the Union can be restored, and that the contending armies of the North and South can shake hands, forget bygones, and join their forces to drive the Emperor Maximilian and th 3 French from Mexico, and sneer Canada by two simultaneous and irresistible movements. Congress has been seized with a fit of hard work. The Ministerial press has asserted so often and so angrily within the last six weeks that the sole busi ness of the representatives was to tax the people, end that the people on their part were so eager and even frantic to receive the visits of the assessor and collector that the heavier the burden that was laid upon them the more gratified they would be, that the House has taken the assertion as a fact, and pro ceeded to act upon it. Mr. Chase, who sees a limit to his powers of borrowing, and whose new loan —the "ten-forties," is not received with anything like the same favour as its predecessor, the "five twenties," had also confirmed the opinion of the press, if it was not he who inspired it, and told the notabilities of the Legislature, though unofficially, that unless 600,000,000 dols. be annually raisee, the war must end, and a fit uncial crisis occur, the like of which neither this nor any other country has ever seen. The Legislature, alarmed apparently at the prospect, has rushed into the consideration of a new Tax Bill, and manifested its willingness to tax anything and everything, save and except the stock of whisky on hand, which, doubtless for substantial reasons, a majority of its members con siders too sacred a thing to be touched. Very little diseussion takes place, and all sorts of ridiculous projects are proposed and carried with an unanimity of ignorance which will amuse foreign nations, but will certainly not amuse Americans when the results become apparent. The income tax of 3 per cent. on all incomes above 600 dais., which produced last year considerably less than one-sixth of the estimate, has been raised to 5 per cent., with the notion, ap parently, that those who evaded the tax when it was comparatively small will p ay it h c eerfully when it is large. Incomes &hove 10,000 dole, and under 25,000 dole, ten per cent. In vain M r. T . Stevens, 8 the chairman of the Committee of Way and Means, proteated against making any distinction in the rate. In vain he urged that to make a very rich m an pay 10 per cent., while the poor or moderately rich m an only paid five, was to discourage thrift and to punish wealth as a crime. The House refused to be turned from its purpose by his arguments, and the bill passed through a ll its stages so rapidly as it it had been the merest matter of form. On a subsequent day Mr. Stevens, w i t h the view e i t h er o f checking theimportation of foreign luxuries, such as silks, velvets, laces, jewellery, precious stones, shaWls, &O. for the adornment of the persons of the fair ladies whose fathers, husbands, and brothers are floating stately argosies in a sea of paper money, and spend ing greenbacks as if each was of no more value than a cent., or of increasing the revenue to be paid in gold, and thus adding to the resources of the coun try, moved to add 50 per cent, to the already high duties imposed by the Morrill Tariff, such increased duties to be levied for 60 days only. The notion was carried by acclamation. Mr. Stevens, like many other crack-brained philanthropists, entertains the notion that this time at least 60 days will suffice to end the war, and if he can bring down the price of gold in the interval, either by destroying the foreign trade, or by making wealthy Americans contribute more largely to the revenues of their own country, by the exorbitant duty they will pay on such goods, he will do the state essential service. Bat Mr. Stevens will neither destroy the foreign trade nor put money into the T reasury b y t h e incredibly foolish proposal which he induced the House to adopt. No amount of duty will check the importa tion of articles of feminine luxury as long as the immense war expenditure and the consequent issues of paper money are continued. The greater the cost of silks and velvets the more determined the ladies will be to obtain them. A fashionable bon net already costs 50 dole., and if it were to cost 200 dole. the fair Mrs. Shoddy would not forego the;indulgence. She already trails her long skirts, at 20 dols. a yard, in slush and saliva of Broadway, and she will trail them with equal pride of wealth and absence of cleanliness if they cost 100 doll. During the 60 days of this stupid tariff, importa tion will cease, to the loss of the revenue, but stocks in hand will go up, and the dry goods importers, already the most prosperous class in the commu nity, will put into their pockets the whole diffe rence between the old tariff and the temporary new one. And such legislation goes in Washington by the name of statesmanship! Nobody laughs at it; nobody exposes it; and nobody thinks it of much consequence. But taxation, and it would seem political eco nomy altogether, is as new to American legislators as to the American people. They are both as igno rant of taxes as that inimitable flunkey immor- 1 talised by Cruikshank, though less happy than that pampered individual, they will learn all about it to their sorrow before many months are over. At present no attempt is made to make the new sys tem work smoothly. The tax-collector is a great and important person, who will not take the trouble to come to the tax-payer, and who will not even con descend to receive through the post office, or the hands of a special messenger, the income tax re turns, duly certified by the signature of the victim. The earner of income must wait upon the tax col lector at his office—on a day set apart for the pur pose by that awful functionary—who may possibly live half a dozen miles distant ; must kick his heels in the antechamber till the great man is ready to receive him ; and must then and there make a return of all his income, whencesoever derived, and solemnly swear to its truth. Daring the first year of the experiment there must either have been as much perjury in America as there has been blood letting on the battlefield, and corruption in every department of public affairs, or the assessors and collectors must have grossly neglected their duties. Whether any improvement will take place under the new act is a question for the future, but if the Americans, so unaccustomed to taxation, pay an income tax ranging from 5 to 10 per cent. without complaint or evasion they will set an example of self-denial and patriotism such as the world has seldom witnessed. The attempt of the Legislature of New York to defraud the foreign creditors of the State by paying the interest of the debt in greenbacks meets with universal reprobation. The amount at stake is small, and from all appearances it seems likely that governor Seymour will convene an extra Session at Albany, especially to reconsider whether so wealthy and solvent a State shall commit this paltry act of bankruptcy. In a circular ad dressed to the leading bankers and public men of this city the Governor recapitulates the facts, encloses his Messages to the Legislature, and calls upon them to save the honour of the State by providing, by subscription among themselves, the balance between the interest in paper and the interest in gold for the payment of all the State creditors, whether domestic or foreign, adding his conviction that the money thus advanced will be a loan which the next Legislature, if not the present, will hasten to repay. " If there be any faltering in the matter," he says, " New York can claim no in dulgent opinion from the world, and the State will brand itself with dishonesty." The Governor's energetic appeal is not likely to pass unheeded. If it were a question of hundreds of millions, there might be a doubt of the result, but, as it is only a matter of a few thousands, the money will be forth coming, and every member of the State Legislature who voted for the petty meanness will he a marked man, if he ever again solicits the suffrage of his fel low-citizens, THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Yesterday the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows of the University of London held a:meet,ing at:Burlington-house, for the purpose of admitting to degrees those who had passed the various exa minations, and awarding certificates and medals to those graduates who had passed with honours. Earl Granville, who wore his robes as Chancellor, presided. It was surrounded by the Professors and Fellows, and the spacious apartment belonging to the Royal Society was crowded by graduates and their friends. A considerable number of ladies were also present. The proceedings were commenced by Dr. Car penter, who read a report of the number of candi dates admitted as graduates and undergraduates during the academical year, The graduates who had passed the examinations for the higher degrees were then presented, the Chancellor delivering to each his diploma. The CHANCELLOR, who was loudly cheered, then rose and spoke as follows :—My Lords, Ladies, and Gantlemen,—l have craved permission of her Ma jesty to absent myself from the Court in order that I might be present here to-day, a request which her Majesty kindly granted, coupled with an ex pression of her kindly desires to meet the wishes of this University. (Cheers.) There are only two things which take away from the feeling of pleasure I have in occupying my position at this moment. One is, that notwithstanding the splendour of my outward apparel I am subject to the evils common to other mortals, and having got toothache (a laugh) I am both mentally and physically indisposed to address you at any great length. The other is that I am to be the person to address you this day. I would myself ;have very much preferred that the Vice-Chancellor, than whom no one has devoted more valuable time to the interests of t!- e Univer sity, should have given his views of the present state of the University, and his hopes of the future. (Cheers.) I will, however, say a few words as to the present state of the University ; and in the first place I think I may congratulate all here present — surrounded as I am by learned Bishops of the Church of England, and by eminent, both spiritual and lay, members not only of different Protestant persuasions, but of the :Roman Catholic Church also—that we have retained in the fullest extent those liberal and comprehensive principles which are the great characteristics of this University. (Cheers.) With regard to the state of the Univer sity, I think the report which has been read by the Registrar is of a very satisfactory kind. One of the most important features of this University is the examinations it has instituted. I have compared the state of the University now with what it was during thelast year of the old charter, and teeeearethe re sults :—I find that in 1887th© total number of candi dates for all examinations was 439. In 1863 they were 1,020, or two and one third times as many. This increase, of course, partly depends on the in• creased number of the examinations, but the pro gress of the University is specially marked by the increase of the matriculations and the larger pro. Portion who] proceed to degrees in the respective faculties. Now, I find the candidates for matricu lation in 1857 were 266 ; in 1863 they were 435, pretty nearly double the number. (Cltiers.) The number who went on to the B.A. examination were —in 1857, 75; in 1863 they were 153, or more than double. For the first M. 13. examination in 1837 there were 43. At the preliminary scientific ex amination in 1863 the number was 104, or nearly two-and-et-half times as many. At the first exami nation for the B Science degree the number is in 1864 53. These increased numbers will eventually tell on the numbers of our graduates. (Cheers.) And I beg all these who are not intimately acquainted with the working of our system to believe that this increase is by no means owing to any laxity in our examination ; for I can appeal to the gentlemen be fore me whether the standard of examination has not gradually been extended and raised to a higher point. (Cheers.) This raising of the standard has always, in the first instance, rather diminished the numbers ; but it ultimatel7 produces more than we bad before. (Cheers.) With regard to other cir cumstances connected with the University,',l c. nnot help feeling proud, as I think all here must do, to find that at the University of Cambriiige there is this year, for the sixth time, a senior Wrangler who is a member of this University--(cheers)—and not „ only a Senior Wrangler, but a Second and Third Wrangler also, both of whom belong to this 'Jai versitv— (cheers)—andof the large number of those who have taken very high and distinguished honours at Cambridge a very large proportion have been enabled to distinguish themselves in that Uni versity by means of those exhibitions they so meri toriously gained by their exertions in our Univer sity. (Cheers.) I cannot help alluding to the con tinuous geoi feeling that has been maintained be tween the Senate and the Convocation. I believe I am not speaking only for myself, I am sure I am speaking for the Senate, and I believe for the whole University, when I say that I deeply regret the causes which have deprived this University, and, to a certain degree, the country, of the talents of Dr. Foster. I believe he contributed very materially to the success of our new charter, which he did so much to frame and work out, from the devotion and attachment he felt to the University. (Hear, hear.) lam glad to think that the gentleman who has succeeded him is one from whom, from the manner in which he has worked, with the perfect under standing of the Senate and Convocation, in every thing that is good for the University, we shall derive the same co-operation as from Dr. Foster, I have said these few words upon points all tending rather to the advantage of the University ; but there are some points in which we do not stand in so satisfactory a position. A Committee of Convoca tion has reported, and their report is a most able statement, as to our position, on the one hand, with regard to annual income, and on the other in regard to buildings. Now, I don't mean to say that I should not like a little more wealth. I think some wealth might be applied very advantageously ; but so far as a mere annual income is concerned, I think we may take pride from that honourable poverty in which I entirely admit we find ourselves. I think it does afford a strong stimulus to our exer tions when we know we depend on our character alone, and not on any factitious inducements to keep up the reputation of the University, but when we come to buildings, I must say that is a very different question. (Cheers.) The statement to which I allude gives a very clear, and almost interesting account of the troubles of the University in this re spect—how we have really been driven from pillar to post, finding a resting-place now in one place, then in another, and how we are rather in a doubt ful situation at the present moment. There is something almost amusing in this description of a University travelling in search of lodgings, but it is, after all, a subject of very sad importance to us. I think really it is some reflection on the adminis trative power of the country to consider that such is the position of the University, after it has been established for more than a quarter of a century, created, as it was, by the Crown, at the express wish of the Legislature, having entirely maintained those principles which it professed from the beginning, and exercised a large influence on the whole educa tion of the country. (Cheers.) I may, perhaps, say what were the practical measures which the Vice- Chaflcellor and myself thought it best to adopt. We wrote a letter and put ourselves in communica tion with the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, by whom we were received with every desire to meet our wishes. We requested him to pat the architect of his department in communication with the Registrar, who is so intimately acquainted with the wishes of the University. I believe a scheme is devised, though I do not know how far it would be proper for me to mention it; but the subject is not neglected. (Cheers.) No doubt what we all wish is that we should have buildings of an imposing character, of architectural pretensions, buildings distinct in themselves, and giving a more complete embodiment of the interests of the University than at present exists. On the other hand, though here lam doubtful—l should think the general opinion of the University was that some of these great ad vantages ought to be sacrificed to great convenience of site if the whole are not compatible. (Cheers.) These are matters I think which ought to be carefully considered, both by the Convocaticri and the Senate in their communications with the Go vernment. But Ido hope we shall at all events be placed in a position in which, whether quite ade quate or not, we shall not have so ignominiously to shift about for the means of carrying on that great eDgice of usefulness, the examinations of this Uni versity. (Cheers.) Having mentioned what ap. pears to he the state of our University 1 may per haps allude to its indirect influence on the educe. tion of the country. Now it is always very desira ble to know what the state of education is, and we have recently bad the great advantage of a singu larly able report drawn up by most competent men, who have directed a large amount of labour and in vestigation with reference to the state of the great public schools 5n this country. And what do we gather from that report ? I remember when prince Talleyrand was ambassador here he was asked, I think by the late Lord Holland, what he thought of our system of public schools in England; and his answer, rather characteristic of his turn for epi• gram Re el paradox, was this. He thought it the best system in the world ; but then he added mais c'esf des astres. The same paradox is to a certain extent carried out cording to what this Commis. Tublic schools. There are sien reports of our great Incalculable advantages conn,:'cted with the system ; there is a sort of freedom perfectly unknown in any other schools, which, for the expresso :' la of honest, sound public opinion, is invaluable. The sye',em has produced men most remarkable for their great pug tic utility and eminence; but, on the other hand, it ap pears that after spending a great many years in these educational institutions, the large mass come out with a great knowledge of cricket, and a very good knowledge of rowing, with only that sort of Latin and Greek which is perfectly useless in after life, and entirely destitute of mathematical, scientific, elementary truth, a knowledge of history and their own country, which it must be admitted are desirable, if possible, to attain. (Cheers.) Now, I can'iot help thinking that it will be satisfactory to this University to read the evidence that seems to have been so much appreciated by the Commission, given by very distinguished persons connected with this University, as to what our curriculum is, what species of examination we require before we admit anybody even within the threshold of the University. It is quite evident that the commission very much approved of what they had heard—that it led them to a course of examination as to the result, and to make most important recommendations founded on the feasibility we have proved to exist of a great extension and widening of the common education now given in the schools in England. With regard to all suckrecommendations, there can be no doubt that merely calling public attention to them is itself of great use ; but in regard to any public enforce ment of them there is great difficulty. Most of these schools are, to a certain extent, endowed, and it is not very easy to induce a change in the system. The only true source of power is in the University, on the one hand, and parents on the other. A great many of these masters complain bitterly that young boys are not prepared sufficiently to begin the work of public education at all. But if you enforce the system of University examination and make it abso lutely necessary that all those who come from school or private tuition must show that amount of know ledge which this University exacts, you produce an immediate pressure, not only on the schools but on parents. Parents would be dissatisfied in seeing their sons not going from these schools to the Uni versity, and schools would take better care to have their pupils brought up to the mark. We in this University deserve some credit for setting the ex ample with regard to the strictness of the matricula tion examination. Some colleges in the other Uni versities have adopted this system, but it was more perilous for a university to set the example without endowments, and relying entirely on the number of its graduates for any position it might take in the world. The result has been not to deter, but gradually and satisfactorily to increase the number the othn a tn m h el e s d ei i n c tt a eo l np dicesd, .b but t profession. hla vhe a ( v C o en h l e ay e l r r oe s n . a ) ed thing of candidat e s f or exam i na ti on , an d p ar ti cu l ar ly in g t h o t al dod longer than dwell y I spokenmi beg in my own name and in the name of the Senate to offer our most cordial congratulations to all those who have been successful, and at the same time to offer friendly condolence to such as have not been so successful. (Cheers.) May Iho allowed also to express a hope that under the blessing of Divine Providence both those who are sueceeeN gnd own who have not yet achieved success may all be en couraged to continue in the path of progressive in dustry, remaining honourable and useful labourers in this university, and, what is of more importance, useful and virtuous citizens of that great country to which we are all so proud to belong. (Loud cheers.) The proceedings then terminated. MURDER IN MARYLEBONE, Timothy Murphy, a tall, slim-built Irishman, was charged at the Marylebone Police-court yesterday. with stabbing a young man named John Eames, a shoemaker, thereby causing his death. The depositions of the deceased were as follows : "I am a shoemaker, living at 27, William-street, Lisson grove. Last night I was in a publichouse in Lisson-street, called the Brazen Head. The prisoner was in the house, but not in my company. I knew him before, but never had a quarrel with him. When in the house I saw him sharpen a knife with a small blade on his shoe. and I heard him say `,l'll run it,' but I did not hear him mention any name, He left the house, and I followed him, and when outside the door I said, 'Do you mean the knife for me ?' He said, Yes, or any ono that comes across mc.' With that he struck at me with the hand in which the knife was, and I think the blade closed on his hand. I then saw him open the knife, with which he stabbed me where I am wounded. I cannot say whether he said anything at the time. After this he ran away. When I found that I was stabbed I ran after him, and he ran into a beer-shop in Harrow-street. I saw a constable, and took him into the beer shop and pointed out the prisoner to him. I am quite sure the prisoner is the man who stabbed me, and I am quite certain that the knife produced is the one I was stabbed with." The following witnesses were examined yesterday : Thomas Chas. Kirby, surgeon, of the D division, said —I was called to John-street police-station, where I saw the deceased. I saw his intestine, about the size of a small orange, protruding. I examined it, and found no wound cf the intestine, but that it came from a small wound in the abdomen, into which I was able to pass my little finger. I endeavoured to return it, and was not able to do so. I had him put into a cab and sent to St. Mary's Hospital, and gave him in charge to the surgeon on duty. By Mr. Yardley—A wound of the description might be caused by such a knife. The deceased appeared perfectly sober. He asked to be taken to the hospital. The knife had passed through the external wall of the abdomen. I should say the knife went in about an inch or an inch and a half. The bowels were uninjured, Wm. Rayner, house surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, said , received John Eames on the night of the 19th under my care. He was suffering from protrusion of the intestines from the wall of the abdomen, caused by a punctured wound, and he seemed to be in a state of collapse. He died on the 7th of May. His death was caused by pysenia, caused by absorption of matter from the pus. The immediate cause of his death was the wound. The knife produced would cause such a wound. lam quite of opinion deceased was sober. I was present when he made his deposition, and in my opinion I think he was in a sufficiently collected state. i may state that before he made his deposition I administered chloroform to him, to increase the size of the wound to re turn his intestines. Mr Kirby—l told him as we were going to the hospital that he WhS likely to die. Thomas O'Donald, labourer—l knew the deceased and the prisoner. On the night in question I was in the company of Eames until he left the Brazen Head public-house. I saw Murphy sitting down in the Brazen Head cleaning his pipe with his knife. This was about half-past 9. Eames was there, and I did not hear a word pass between them. Murphy went out and went away. I did not see what he did with the knife that he was cleaning his pipe with. Eames remained for a short time inside the house, and then fol lowed Murphy, and what happened I d,nt know. Eames followed about three minutes after. I never said I saw Murphy with a knife in his hand. Patrick Slater—l knew the prisoner and deceased. I was walking along Bell-street and there were two men fighting inside the Brazen Head. One was Patrick King and the other Dan Dunnigan. I looked into the house and saw the prisoner sitting inside next to the door. Presently Murphy came out and walked across the road, and Eames came out and said "Murphy has got a knife in his hand," and I said he had not ; and he (Eames) followed, and they com menced fighting, and Eames returned to me, and said, "I am stabbed," and I said, " No, you are not," and looked. He pointed down, and I saw no knife or blood. Eames said, " I will have him locked up," and he (Murphy) was taken to the station. Charles Lawrence, 53, Lisson-street, shoemaker—l was not acquainted with prisoner or deceased. I was looking out of the window and saw the prisoner come out of the Brazen Head, and stand on the kerb, and Eames ran at the prisoner in a fighting attitude, and prisoner ran back, and called out "police," and they closed, and after they parted I thought he (Eames) was stabbed. Mr. Yardley—Can you say which struck the first blow ? Witness—l saw Eames strike first, Prisoner struck an under-hand blow at the lower part of his person. Eames walked away with his hand to his side. By the Prisoner—l did not tee you come out of the Brazen Head. I did not see him knock you down, I heard you call "police." In reply to Mr. Yardley, Mr. Kirby said the wound was in an upward direction. Thomas Lee, 28, Little James-street--I was in the Braz Head, but not in the same compartment. Hearing a fight outside I went out, and saw deceased and prisoner in a fight ing attitude. Prisoner was getting backwards as fast as he could, and deceased followed him. Prisoner was calling out " police I" All at once deceased stopped, and said, " I have got ; lam knifed," Prisoner ran into a beer-shop, cor ner of Harrow-street, and deceased came to where I was standing and began to undo bis clothes, and I went away. That is all I know. a ni n d gw y .i o t t ha h e e k b n e ei knifef r e - aspnhrdeopdp,ui produced i r in r s o th w hi - es sht ar Mary ueedt. HH A ei n g tp e hr ß ui sm u o r nb e e h wr e ) a l l sc , a l bm a l landlady ee d d l i one. A man standing at the bar asked what he had been doing, when he said " 1 was scraping out my pipe and fell and cut my hand." The customer asked why . ho did not tie it up, and he said he had nothing to tie it up with it, anti he told him to go home and get it dressed, He remained, however, and Eames and the police came in, and he (Eam es ) said, " That is the man, and my blood is upon him." I said, "Bow can it be your blood; look at the man," not knowing at the time anything of this. The offi cer asked the prisoner for the knife, and ho gave it from his waistcoat pocket. Prisoner—l said that was my blood and nobody else's. Robert Brown, 259 D—l was on duty in Bell-street about ten minutes after ten, and deceased came and said, " Master, lam stabbed." I asked where, and he pointed down to his left side, and I saw blood and his clothes cut. He said the man was in the " jerryshop" (airs. Burelaell's), and he pointed to prisoner and said, "That is the man that stabbed me, and that is my blood on his hand." I asked the prisoner to come with me, He said, "All right, that is no person's blood but mine," and ho at my request gave me the k nife produced. I said, "How did you cut your thumb , " and he said, " I fell on the kerb." As we were leaving Mrs. Burchell's deceased said, "Murphy is the last man that ought to stab me," and Murphy said, " We will settle it all in High-street." About nine o'clock the same evening pri soner came to me and said he wanted to give Pat Slater into custody for stealing a shilling. I went to the public-house door and called Slater out, and prisoner and Eames were present. lle first said Slater had taken the shilling from his hand, and then from his pocket. I asked did he (Slater) take a shilling at all from him, and he said No, and then Eames said, "Master, we have all been drinking together," and walked away. Prisoner followed, and said, " I will be revenged upon him to-night." I was present and saw de. ceased sign the depositions after they ha d been read over to him. Sergeant Dobble, 33 D, acting inspector —I was on duty at Molyneux-street station when prisoner was brought in. Brown gave me the knife, and said the prisoner is charged with stabbing a man, pointing to Earnee. The knife was besmeared with blood, and prisoner said, " That blood comes from my thumb, He is not stabbed at all. Let him show his marks if lam a guilty man." I examined him at once, and found he was stabbed, an d the bowels protruding. Whilst the inte rva l el a p s ed for the s ur g eon's arrival pri soner said he was c l ean i ng his pipe when the dec eased struck him on the back of the head. Eames said that he did not strike him. I asked Eames if they had had any quarrel, and he said there had not been. Mr Yardley committed the prisoner for trial on the charge of wilful murder. THE INQUEST. Yesterday Dr Lankester held a n in q uest at the Bank of EnglanErae, daTa:earns,hPoreameda-ksetrr, age d 19, who had died i n St . Paddington, on the body o f John Mary's Hospital, from the effects of a wound in the abdomen, alleged to have been inflicted by a man named Timothy Murphy, in custody on the charge, with a knife, during a quarrel on the night of Tuesday, the 13th ult, The evidence, which was of a voluminous and conflict ing character, went to show that on the night in question there was a dispute between Murphy, deceased, and a man named Slater, about a shilling, and the former, about nine o'clock, wished to give Slater into custody to Constable Brown, 259 D, for stealing it from him. Deceased inter posed, and said it was nothing of the sort. They had all been drinking together, and Nurphy had pledged his hand kerchief for a shilling, and now it was spent wanted the money back again. Deceased then went away, and Murphy followed him, swearing he would be revenged upon him that night. This was at 9 o'clock, and about an hour after de ceased went into the Brazen Bead public-house, i n Li sson• street, and Murphy was there dr inkin g with some other men.. Murphy sharpened a clasp knife on his s h oe t n d then went out, and deceased followed him and a.AIQd him if he meant that knife for him, and ho replied " Yes," or any one that comes across me. The evidence then showed that deceased, in a sparring attitude, followed Murphy up, the latter being also in the same attitude, but retreating for several yards, calling out " Police." The men suddenly closed, and immediately after the deceased exclaimed, " Oh, I'm knifed." Murphy then ran away, and into tho Britannia beer-shop adjacent ; and the constable (Brown) coming up, deceased told him, he had begil §tabbed, tt/Ad Sh9YlNd4il4 t4O cut. in his trousers, and he went to the beer-shop and took Murphy, who was pointed to by deceased as the man who had stabbed him, into custody. He asked him if he had a knife, and he said yes, and produced the clasp knife from his pocket. Deceased was conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, whhere he lingered until Saturday last, where he died, as the medical testimony proved, from the effects of the wound. After explaining the law as relating to murder, man slaughter, and justifiable homicide, the coroner said it would have been well if the accused party could have been there to have heard the evidence against him, and if the jury thought an adjournment necessary, as the man Murphy was not committed, he had no doubt MrYardley, the magis trate would consent to his doing so. After some discussion the Jury considered the presence of the accused and further evidence indispensable, and the inquiry was with that object adjourned till Monday next, The German National Union, -0-- A crowded meeting of Germans residing in Lon don was held last night in the large room of the German National Union, Seyd's Hotel, Finsbury, for the discussion of certain resolutions bearing upon the position of the Schleswig and Holstein question with regard to the London Conference. The president of the Union (Dr. Kinkel) being called to the chair on the motion of M. Siemens, he opened the proceedings by explaining that, although the meeting was called by the committee of the National Union, it was to be considered not merely as a meeting of that society, but as expressing the feel ings and opinions of the general body of Germans residing in London. He was sorry that the depu tation from Kiel which had lately arrived in this country to protest against the proceedings of the London Conference had taken their departure, and he had received a letter from their representative regretting that they could not be present on the present occasion. At a meeting held last November he had warned his bearers not to treat the Schles wig and Holstein question too lightly, and the events of the last six months had proved the correctness of the views he had then taken on the subject. He was of opinion that neither Russia, France, nor England would move in the matter, in proof of which he would revert to the fact of an Austrian fleet having passed up the Channel into the German Ocean without op position on the part of the French or British Go vernments. England was too much interested in the raising of the blockade of the Elbe and the Weser to interfere. She did not fear that a Euro pean war would spring out of the Schleswig and Holstein question, but if such an event happened the Prussians had little to fear. Their commerce was insignificant in comparison to that of England. their population of 40 millions were nearly all en gaged in cultivating a fertile soil, and their internal resources would enable them to carry on a war for almost any length of time. Their commerce with the whole world was also secured to them, bounded as they were by neutral States like Holland and Swit zerland. The war had proved the superiority of their military resources, not only in flesh and blood, but in war material. He considered that the people of Schleswig and Holstein alone had a right to dis pose of their future. This was a principle which had been acknowledged by the Emperor of the French, it was adopted by several ()Tans of the English press, and Prussia and the German Code. deration appeared inclined to support the demand of the Duchies to have a voice in the choice of their future Government. The English Ministry had refused to give a hearing to the deputation from Kiel. He had, however, handed their memorial to the Plenipotentiary of the German Confedera tion, M. von Beust, embodying the resolutions which had been passed at the meeting of the Hol stein Estates. He concluded by moving a resolution to the following effect—" That States out of Ger many have no right to decide on German affairs; but considering that a Conference on the subject of Schleswig-Holstein was now actually sitting in London, at which Conference the German Confede ration was represented, it becomes necessary for the representatives of the German nation in this coun try to insist upon the following points :-1. That the two Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein should remain undivided; 2. That, considering the fact of the representatives of Schleswig having taker, their seats in the German Parliament of 1848, Schleswig should be acknowledged as part of the German Con • federation ; 3. That the Duchies be separated from the nexus with the Danish Kingdom ; and lastly, that it be left to the people of Schleswig and Holstein to choose their future Government by their own vote." The motioa having been put it was carried by acclamation. The meeting was then addressed by Messrs. W. Siemens, F. 11. S. Born, Scherzer Reimers, Von Konich, Schluud, and Brudes, and a motion was agreed to that the resolutions passed at the present meeting should be transmitted to Baron von Beust, the Plenipotentiary of the German Con federation at the London Conference, as soon as pos sible. A vote of thanks was then passed to Profes sor Kinkel, and the proceedings terminated. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TlMES.—During the first two years of the present Government it was their general practice to sustain at least one defeat every Wednesday. The motions which led to this result were brought on generally by members sitting below the gangway, whose views were more extreme than those of the Administration they supported. Acting without the fear of responsi bilii y, and released from the necessity of considering the occasion, the fitness, or the policy of their motions, these gentlemen contrive to convert the House of Commons into a species of Debating S.:ciety, in which they could ventilate their opinions at the expense principally of the Government they professed to support. It was the practice of the then Home Secretary to vote for these motions, but to give them only a very feebl e an d d u bi ons sup port in his speeches. The result of this combina tion was, as . we have said, that Wednesday was a black day for the Governm e nt, scarce l y ever pass ing over without a defeat more or less damaging. It is only due to Sir George G re y t o sa y that under his administration these defeats have been much fewer, —whether from the greater discretion of members, or the better tactics of the Home S e c re t ar y, or both combined, it is now scarcely worth inquiring. The debate and di v i s i on o f yes t er d ay, h owever, rea d like a return to the former practice. The Govern ment contrived to get itself signally defeated by a majority of fifty-six on a question on which there was no occasion to have sustained any defeat at all. In 1859 the House, under the leadership of Lord Russell, defeated th e R e f orm Bill of Lord Derby, and in 1860 the new House of Commons, yet fresh from contact with their constituents, sneered, cri ticized, and talked down the six-pound franchise which Lord Russ e ll had proposed. Dire predic• tions were uttered that this outrage would rouse the indignation of the constituent bodies through out the country. But those who tistened for the avenging storm listened in vain. Not even a cloud as large as a man's hand rose out of the ocean of popular opinion, and with almost universal ac quiescence a measure on which two Governments had successively staked their existence was suf fered to fall into oblivion. So entirely has the impossibility of passing a Reform Bill in the pre sent House of Commons . been recognised, that scarcely has the Government been taunted in the hottest party debates with its neglect to fulfil the very engagements on the strength of which it ejected its antagonists from power. Opinion wasin the main just, and, without inquiring too minutely into the sincere desire of the Government to pass the mea sure it had introduced, the public recognised that I the rejection of the bill was more the act of the House than of the Government, more the act of , the Liberal than the Conservative party, and more the act of the constituencies themselves than of any or either of them. It has, however, pleased Mr. Baines, unmindful of these things, to bring in what has been facetiously called a oneebarrelled Reform Bill of his own ; and to level this detonating instrument pointblank at the Government. Thus challenged, the course to be taken by the Govern ment would seem to have been exceedingly plain. Without entering into the merits of the question, they might have stated plainly and honestiy the rea§ons which had induced them to abstain from the introduction of a new Reform Bill, and insisted that the libeehy which they denied to themselves they could not possibly aceord to a private member. They might have u r g ed with ir resistible farce that such a measure should be brought in by a Government responsible to the house and to the country, or not et all ; and the might have declined most reasonably to be dra ke edY into a discussion which could have no practical re f suit ; except to excite expectations which were no likely to 1).3 g;atiAed. If, however, the Govern ment decided to support the a:eaeniro of,Mr.Baiues, and thus to record a condemnation or tteeisseetves for not having introduced a similar bill , their course was equally plain. They should have treated the bill like the bill of Mr. Locke Icing, merely as a declaration that the franchise ought to be lowered N eje:ll9ot ee L ejuittinii tj acmgc lyeo any ittrther. The aspiring genius of Mr. Gladstone, however, spurned all prudential considerations, and launched him into a discusaion which is destined to form an era in the annals of party, and to influence most mate rially the remainder of his political career. Taking upon himself to speak on behalf of the Government, Mr. Gladstone laboured to extend, instead of striving to limit, the import of the proposition be fore the House. There are two poi n t s o f v i ew f rom eihich the question of the franchise may be treated ; the one is practical, the other specula tive. The one would regard the admission of a large number of fresh voters to the franchise as a measure to be argued on the ground of prac tical improvement, as a means likely to remedy a mischief of some kind clearly proved to exist. The first point in such a train of reasoning would be to show the failure of existing arrangements; the second, to show some connection between that failure and the remedy proposed. This is the point of view from which, as it seems to us, every person really deserving the name of a statesman would be disposed to regard the subject. But on this part of the question Mr. Gladstone is utterly silent. He expressly admits that the working men have learnt to place confidence in Parliament, that they feel they may look to Parliament to pass bene ficial measures without agitation, and that for these reasons they have abandoned political agitation, and betaken themselves to the improvement of their minds. He does not pretend for a moment to say that any measures beneficial to the working classes are withheld by Parliament as at present elected which would be granted if the working classes had more votes in the constituencies. Nay, he is at pains to show how greatly the position of the country has been amended by the labours of a Parliament in whose election she working classes have no share. Putting aside these practical considerations, Mr. Gladstone bases his argument exclusively on the ground of equality and abstract right. He does not try to show that the country will be better or even as well governed. But ho says that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by s ome consideration of personal unfitness or political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution. He adds, " I contend that it is on those who say it is necessary to exclude forty nine-fiftieths that the burden of proof rests to show the unworthiness, the incapacity, and the miscon duct of the working classes." Surely this is the language of sweeping and levelling democracy, of men who have emancipated themselves from the doctrine of the Right Divine of Kings in order to fall into the equally dangerous fallacy of the Right Divine of multitudes ? This theory considers Government not as existing for the sake of the governed but of the governing class, inasmuch as it makes the admission to the governing class depend, not on the interest of those for whom the act is to be done, but on some previous claim which all men are supposed to possess to manage the affairs of their neighbours, unless some positive disqualification can be established agaiast them. It is Equality against Liberty, Theory against Practice, abstract dogma tism against experience, a confusion between the end and the means. If the object of Government be simply to govern, it may easily be admitted that all men not subject to some manifest incapacity should as freely participate in this function as in air, light, and warmth. But if the object of Go. vernment be, as we maintain it is, the welfare of the governed, then we say that the only right to a share in the Government is the capacity to exercise that function, not only for the benefit of the person himself, but of those whom he governs. We cannot wonder that doctrine so thoroughly unpractical, and resting on a theory so manifestly unsound, failed to secure the assent of the House of Commons, and we hops the day is far distant when this coun try, which mainly owes its progress to its steady adherence to practical views, and equally marked distrust of abstract reasonings, will entertain a Reform Bill based on principles of abstract equality, which the whole experience of mankind has proved to be groundless and mischievous. POST.—Soon after the effects of the war in the United States had begun to tell upon the demand for labour in the districts of the cotton manufacture, some of the relief committees endeavoured to lighten the distress by finding employment for the opera tives in out-door work—in excavation and levelling. But even in those places in which this out door work was not ostensibly a labour test it became one in fact ; since it was for the most part paid for either at the exact rate of relief, or by a sum closely approximating to it. The relief committees, indeed, being the almoners of the public bounty, were bound to restrict their action to the great object of alle viating distress. They would have been exceeding their functions, and going beyond the intention of the subscribers to the several funds, had they ad ministered the charity with which they had been entrusted with an eye to any other end. Still, the condition of many of the manufacturing towns was such as demanded imperatively the most extensive sanitary improvements. Labour was at hand in the shape of the unemployed factory operatives ; it was desirable from every point of view that this labour should be utilised, and that it should be paid for at such a rate as would insure the hearty co operation of the workmen employed, and make their work really efficient. The rapid development of the cotton manufacture in the years immediately pre ceding the distress had given an extraordinary im • pulse to the building of houses and cottages. The mills could not be worked without hands, and hands could not be obtained unless there were houses on the spot for them. Dwelling-places were run up and occupied, and then, the immediate want being sup plied, the completion of the roads—their paving,flag ging, and sewering—remained in abeyance. There was an important work to be done; the labourers were ready at hand, but whence was the money for their wages to come from—those wages to be some thing like wages, and not merely charitable relief P The public, who had contributed so generously for the latter purpose, could not be expected to supply a wages fund as well. To meet this emergency the Public Works Act of last session was passed-26 and 27 Viet., chap. 70. The purpose of this Act was threefold—first, to enable the local authorities in the cotton manufacturing districts to borrow money from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners; secondly, to facilitate the improvement of the towns in those districts; and thirdly, to provide work and remunerative wages to the unemployed operatives. At first, the opinion that any rough out-door work would impair the aptitude of the operative for his proper occupation seemed likely to interpose a serious obstacle to the working of the Act, and the hope that the war in the United States would come to an end very speedily operated in the same direc tion. The continuance and the prospect of the con tinuance of the war, and the necessity of employing the workmen actively, have caused this objection to fade away. Accordingly, more than fifty districts have availed themselves of the provisions of the Public Works Act, and various sums, amounting to a total of more than £BOO,OOO, have been authorised by the Poor-law Board to be borrowed for different public local purposes. Mr. Redgrave has given in his last report a tabular statement of the places in his district of inspection to which loans have been granted, recording also the amount in each case, and the specific purposes to which it is to be applied. Thus the borough of Blackburn has received about £144,000 to sewer and drain certain parts of the borough, to flag and pave certain streets snd high ways, to pitch the bed of so much of the river as lies within the borough, to improve bridges, to establish public baths, and to level, drain, and plant public works. The township of Wheelton has received £lOO to level and improve certain highways, public roads, and footpaths. A grant of £l,OOO has been made to Hurst district to pave, flag, sewer, and complete certain streets, and to provide lamps and other requisites for lighting the district. Droylesden has borrowed 12,800 to make sewers and provide gas pillars, lamp-irons, &c.; and the city of Manchester more than £150,000 to con struct a reservoir, to extend and improve the supply of water, and to provide and lay out a cemetery. 'l'o the borough of Preston nearly £50,000 has been lent to block, pave, flag, sewer, level, and channel streets, to form and complete certain reads, to make footpaths on the river side, and to lay oat and improve public parks. The borough of Salford has received more than £50,000 for the purpose of sewering, &c., streets, constructing a canal basin, building walls, and executing other works at a great manure depot, laying out the land purchased for extending the Salford cattle market, and construct. ing a canal basin, building walls, and executing other works at a great manure depot, laying out the land purchased for extending the Salford cattle market, and constracting cattle stalls, sheep p ens , &c. The above particulars are examples of the sort of outdoor employment which is affording work to many of the unemployed factory hands, and with it wages, which, though they are mach below what is necessary for the requirements of an operative's family, are nevertheless a great aid to him, atig are received with satisfaction by men who are Willing to dig and ashamed to beg. The cheerful alacrity with w hich they have accepted the Neer!: off ere d t o th em f O ro o m th a is le p tt o e i r nt se w n e t m sa a y y s q ! u el o .y te m th u e 4t fo i l il lo t w il tn i g r favour. remarks to the factory inspector by the ch airman of the labour committee at Blackhurn—" greater contrast that presented between the cotton•spinner as a skilled workman in a factory and as a labourer in a sewer 14 or 1S feet deep can scaeeely be conceived. Accustomed as he has been to a temperature all but tropical, to work at which agility and delicacy of manipulation availed him infinitely more than mt}senla7 stronGth, and to clonLlo and some times treble the reenuneation which it is possible for him now to obtain, his ready acceptance of the proffered employment involved an amount of self. denial and consideration, the exercise of which is most creditable, 131aelebeeli Lam have bop tested at almost every variety of outdoor work—in excavating a eliff heavy clay soil to a ccmiderable depth, in draining, in stone-breaking, in road making, and in excavating for street sewers to a depth of 14 26, and sometimes 20 feet. In many cases while thus employed they are standing in mud and water to the depth of 10 or 12 inches, and in all they are exposed to a climate which for chilly humidity is not surpassed, I suppose, even if it is equalled, in that of any district in England. Yet. notwithstanding these disadvantages, I am free to say that although I have been in daily contact with the men and their superintendents, I have not heard a single complaint as to the nature of the work the men were sent to execute, except in cases of sickness or bodily infirmity, and even these I am glad to say have been rare. Whatever may be the shortcomings of the Lancashire operative, so far as my experience has enabled me to judge, it cannot be said of him with truth that he is either afraid or ashamed to work. The nature of the outdoor employments in which the men are engaged shows further the beneficial results which the Public Works Act is drawing oat of so great a distress as the cotton famine. It is enabling towns to undertake and execute many improvements which it would have been almost impossible to succeed in without some very power ful motive. The interests of the owners of the land, of the builders of house property, of rate payers, &c., are so various, and the increase of towns so outran the possibility of simultaneous sanitary arrangements, that it required the extra ordinary pressure of a great calamity to force so many conflicting interests into agreement, and the intervention of the Legislature has made provisions to assist them in obtaining the requisite funds for completing many very useful and much needed public works. COUNTRY MARKETS. LYNN-TUESDAY. The weather since this day week has been showery, with north-easterly wines. At to-day's market there was a moderate show of wheat, and last week's prices were at is more money for best sorts. Barley and beans firm. Peas more inquiry, and rather dearer. White wheat 45s to 46s Red .. 29s to 40s I Beans .32s to 34s Small Barley . 32s to 36s Grinding. Oats.. Peas .. —s to —s HULL—TirEsma. At this day's market there was a moderate supply of English wheat, which was held firm at last week's rates. Foreign met a slow inquiry, at about late prices. Malting and grinding barley slow to sell. Beans firm, and good dry qualities sold at 6d per qr dearer. Peas were in re quest, at 30s. Oats better to sell. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 42s Od to 44s Od Old red 2) New white • . 1 , New red . . .. 1) Barloy....English m al ting 27s Od to 34s Od Grinding 24s Od to 258 61 Saal and Oderbruck __ _ Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od Grinding Oats English, old 22s Od to 24s Od Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch osl3d to ()Mid Swedish and Danish osl2lcl to osl3d Beans ....English, old, per qr. 4os Od to 43s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 41s Cd New tick. 4os Od to 428 Od Egyptian .. 30s Od to 33s Gd Peas Foreign boilers .. Grinding Tares ....Spring —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing .. 4os Od to 52s Od Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 10 0 to 19 15 0 Foreign: Bl5 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5 0 oto 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 Oto 510 0 MONMOUTH-TUESDAY. The local markets have been fairly attended of late, and considerable business has been transacted. Prices show no material alteration, and the average quotations are as fol. lows,— Wheat, white..ss Od to 5s Od I Barley. .3s4dto 3s 10d Ditto red. .0s Od to Os Od 0at5......... 2s 2d to 2s 7d BRISTOL SUGAR-WEDNESDAY. We have had a dull, dragging market for sugar thiS week, and prices were in favour of buyers, but the quail• tity offering is so small as scarcely to constitute a market. Nothing doing in rum. COAL M. Prlces of Coal per Ton at ,RKET. the close of the market. s. d. West Hartley ..16 9 Holywell ..17 6 Walker Primrose 13 0 Wylam 17 6 Eden Main l6 6 Walls End. 8. d Heugh Hall _.... 17 6 East Hartlepool 18 0 South Kelloe 17 6 T iaswell Braddyll's Hetton 17 3 Tunstall South Hotton 18 0 :et, 161; sold, 8. Walls End. Cassop Ships at mart Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. May 19. via Marseilles May 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet June 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles Ma y .l3. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. May 12. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton 11pty 19. - via Marseilles May 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton May 12. - via Marseilles May 21. Portugal.... June 5. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 12. via Marseilles May 13. Newfoundland . .May . ll. Oporto and Vigo . . U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 11. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. 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They purify the blood. cleanse the stomach, gently stimulate the kidneys, and act as m ild aperients. Without some such corrective as Holloway's Pills the festivity of one day often debars us from all enjoy' ment for a week. A few doses of this purifying medicine set the foulest stomach right, restrain biliousness, steady the circulation, give strength to the muscles, and compo sure to the brain and nerves. The Pills are incapable of doing mischief to the most delicate constitution. When the system has been enervated by over indulgence, or ex hausted by mercurial preparations, these Pills are excellent restoratives ; they expel all poison, and enrich the blood. Births. CtRZON.—On the 10th inst., at 40, Charles-street, the Roth Mrs. Curzon, of a daughter. MACDONELL ---On the 9th inst., at 13 rOMPtOLI, the wife Of Lieut.- C010n6 , 1 A. A, Macdonell, of a son. ST. AVn?N.—On the 11th inst., at 39, Lowndes-street! the Lady Elizabeth St, Aubyn, of a daughter. WYBURD.—On the 9th inst„ at 25, Bryanston. street, the wife of Francis J. Wyburd, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. NISTET—KINGSCOTE,—On the 10th inst., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square, the Rev. J. M. Nisbet,tvicar of Rams" gate, to Laura, the second daughter of Henry Kingscotej Esq., of 96, Eaton-place. SIMMONS—BEAME9.—On the 10th inst., at Corsham, Wu% C. Simmons, of Darnley-road, Hackney, seconcl son 01 the late J o h n Si mmons, E sq., of Bishopsgate, London, to Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Beamest Esq., of The Priory, Corsham, Wilts, Deaths. COOMDE.—On the 10th inst , at 4, Milton -terrace, Wandg• worth-road, Benjamin Coombe, Esq., of GS, Mark-lane , aged 60. Doc..—On the 10th inst., at Chelsea, Frederick M. Dos, author of " The Triglot Grammar," &c., aged 70. LLoyn.—On the Bth inst., at Manchester, Edward Bell Lloyd, Esq., late of the 16th Light Dragoons, aged 7 0 . RENNOLLS,—On the 9th inst,. suddenly, at ;57 Thornhill' square, Barnsbury, Rennolls, E sq ., of 1, Lincoln 0 inn-Aelds, solicitor, aged 57. STEIN.—On the 10th inst., at Clapham, Frederick William Stein, Esq., aged G. Noon,—On the 10th inst., at Barleythorpc, Constantin , the wife of Major-U - etteral R. B. Wood, C. 8,, aged a'24. WARsov,---On the Bth_ inst., at Queen's-crescent, Sontil Hampstead, Richard Warsop, Esq., aged 83. I London : Fria - , wd and Prlmished by WILLIMIANDREW SI of No, 112 , Strand, Printer, at Tun SUN Office No. 113 : ` . ,rand, IA the Precinct of the lavoy, ip, the cotu). l 9 o' • DUcitUegez•-_-,llwr§clay, Uay n um, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1864 }